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Nessus NASL Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA8842
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Release Date:
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2003-05-23
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Popularity:
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7,414 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Nessus 1.x
Nessus 2.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Nessus, which can potentially allow malicious users to escalate privileges or malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to some boundary errors in the NASL scripting engine when executing specially crafted NASL scripts.
Successful exploitation either requires a valid account on the system and the ability to install arbitrary Nessus plug-ins or that a malicios person is able to trick a user with the nessescary privileges into installing and executing a malicious NASL script.
NOTE: It is not possible for a user to install arbitrary plug-ins by default.
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